| Book Art Treasure Box-1003-NF08 | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:14:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Book Art Treasure Box A truly unique design that mimics guilded manuscripts, carved and hand painted will certainly compliment your decor. Exquisite keepsake boxes fashioned in the ancient Chinese art form called Coromandel. It is the carving of clay over wood, hand painting with an oil base paint and using several layers of lacquer as finish. It is this finish which protects the art work and gives our product its very shiny look. Lined in plush felt fabric. Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 4" ... | |
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| | | Book: Introduce preschoolers to joys of art, music | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:47:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Jazz and art for preschoolers? Yes! These new interactive board books will delight young children while introducing them to the world's most talented artists and musicians. The "Touch the Art" series by Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo are perfect for discovering the masters from Matisse to Warhol. Each of the four books celebrates a different style and has something interesting on each painting for little fingers to touch and play with. Each beautiful piece of artwork includes a rhyming verse describing the painting. Extra information about the paintings and artists is in the back of the book. (Sterling, $9.99, ages 2-6) The finger-snapping sounds of jazz and the fun of stories can be found in the "Baby Loves Jazz" books by Andy Blackman Hurwitz and illustrated by Andrew Cunningham.... | |
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| | | Brain coral | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:47:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Science is the art of the probable. Literature is the art of the plausible. You can see the paradox. Science is a continuous collective attempt to get the story right, so some of it must once have been wrong. Therefore the latest science books should be the last word in non-fiction. They hardly ever are. John Gribbin opens the science publishing year with The Universe: A Biography (Allen Lane), an attempt to separate what we really know about the cosmos from what we think we know, or we know we just think. It is, he tells me, "probably" book number 102 from the Gribbin word machine. .... | |
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| | | Archives | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 2:49:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ever wonder what's on the top floor of the UNC Charlotte library tower? The 10th floor houses the library's special collections which includes rare books, manuscripts, university archives, oral histories, local documents, historical maps and the university art collection. Robin Brabham is the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections & Public Programs. "I came here in 1969 and the library had a small rare books collection at that time, and was beginning to acquire manuscript collections [including] some of the early papers of Bonnie Cone from Charlotte College," Brabham said. The special collections area was established in 1973 and Robin Brabham became the head of the department and incidentally the only employee. Today Katie McCormick, Reference Archivist Librarian & Coordinator of the Oral History Program, joins Brabham.... | |
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| | | International Baccalaureate Art Exhibition | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:48:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Art is arguably one of the most powerful mediums of expression available and artists use it to make graphic expressions of their emotions. This can be fury, joy or depression. They use their talent to shape and to give colour to their feelings and impressions of the world they live in and, at times, the world that they fantasize about. 'Where are we? Alive in Hell!' "World Trade Center" (2006) is at the New Capital Cinemas. This is a movie based on the premise that we should honour the living. It is the true story of two policemen and their families. Will Jimeno (acted by Michael Pea, who starred in "Crash") has served for six years, has a wife, Allison (Maggie Gyllenhaal), one daughter and another on the way. Each acquiesces to the other's choice of a name for their next daughter.... | |
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| | | Scientist sees art through microscope | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:47:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- As biochemist Michael Davidson peered at monkey DNA through his microscope more than two decades ago he saw more than scientific form and function. He saw art. Davidson eventually began taking pictures of crystallized substances ranging from vitamins to beer as seen through a microscope. His images have been used for calendars, posters, greeting cards and women's sportswear but most profitably on neckties. The "Molecular Expressions" ties were such a hit in the 1990s they earned millions for Davidson, the tie company, a charity and Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where he heads the Optical Microscopy Division. The lab's $1.5 million share provided seed money for microscopy research that continues to advance science -- and art.... | |
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| | | Auction House at 50 Worcester Rd (Rt 12) Sterling, MA | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 12:47:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Among The Things We Are Offering: Gold, Silver, Designer-Costume Jewelry, Sterling Silver Items, Antique & Custom Furniture, Vintage Textiles, Books & Ephemera, Antique Bottles, Inkwells, Lamps, Paintings, Framed Prints & More! Victorian walnut commode with marble top & back splash; pair of carved teakwood stands with inlaid cloisonne tops; 18th Century maple snake foot candlestand; Fed style mah dining room set with china cabinet, credenza, table & 6 ribbon back chairs; set of 6 Chippendale yoke back dining chairs with heavy ball & claw feet; Fed style mah bookcase secretary/desk; round inlaid mah occasional table; 4x6 pine cupboard with raised panel double doors; antique pine fall front desk with drawer; 4 drawer antique chestnut bureau; set of 4 early arrow back chairs with orig stenciling; lg camphorwood brass mounted lift top chest; carved Victorian 8 drawer flat top desk; Art Deco brass; bronze & wooden base floor lamps with art glass shades; lg antique brass double student lamp; lg hand painted Nippon vase table lamp with shade; double necked Art Deco table lamp with hand painted glass shades; Dresden porcelain oil lamp; early glass whale oil lamps; other early fluid lamps; lg amberina pitcher with applied handle; Art Deco glass powder box with lg gilt panther bracket holder; elegant set of cut amber glass goblets with matching bowls & casters; lg group of Sandwich glass; salt cellars; unusual antique castor bottle sets in sp holders; crystal liquor decanters; decorated Limoges porcelain; many antique cloisonne items including lg vases, bowls, etc; cranberry & cobalt glass pcs; OLD BOTTLES & INKS: Green squat sodas with pontils; lg green medicine bottle: Pine Tree Cordial; Saratoga mineral waters; apothecary jars; odd fruit jars; custard glass tea kettle ink with decoration; many early inks including carved stone, glass, brass & iron; ink bottles; inkstands; etc; two blue decorated 2 gal crocks plus other pcs of stoneware crockery & jugs.... | |
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| | | It may be art, but can we live with it? | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 10:48:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | Boosters of the Denver Art Museum's avant-garde expansion wing hope the glass shards and titanium design will be the Eiffel Tower of the Rockies, becoming the instant postcard icon of the city and signaling urban sophisticates that Denver belongs on their itinerary next to Bilbao, New York or London. But what if the wing is just plain ugly? A number of average citizens and schooled architects wonder if the jarring style represented by Daniel Libeskind's design is more imposition than institution, more trend than truth, more spectacle than service to the community. The ever-growing list of comments jotted down in books next to the architectural model on display at the museum reflect the art world's ongoing debate: "Another private language, intelligible to some, incoherent to the rest of us." Or, more chillingly, this one: "I think it one of the ugliest designs I have ever seen.... | |
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| | | Art and nature celebration to be Saturday at UCCCA | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:48:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, The Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts will present a family day celebrating art and nature, featuring reading, painting, sculpture and more at Wilber Mansion. Throughout the day, artist and illustrator Christie Scheele will greet families and sign copies of a newly released version of Alf Evers’ children’s book, "Treasure of Watchdog Mountain: The Story of a Mountain in the Catskills." First published in 1955, "Treasure of Watchdog Mountain" is a fictionalized version of what happened to Overlook Mountain, spanning the time from the mountain’s geological birth to the present. The book covers the first meeting between American Indians and Europeans and takes the reader through the effects different American industries had on the mountain.... | |
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| | | Jewish Art | | Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:48:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Book collectors are often pack-rats that are obsessed with the printed word in all of its manifestations. If Jews are the People of the Book, Jewish book collectors can be satirically characterized as bookaholics who would sell their kitchen table for added shelf space. It is thus somewhat surprising to discover a book collector who not only managed to focus his collection on ancient Jewish manuscripts, but who also conceived of his books as art objects, more than simply as carrying cases for texts. .... | |
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